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GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 456 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,626,612 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($134,335,256). 283 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $148M
- Funders on record
- 456
- Grants received
- $367M
- Net assets
- $209M
What Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc does
Mission
The weta mission is to produce and distribute content of intellectual integrity and cultural merit using a broad range of media to reach audiences both in our community and nationwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National television/digital production - weta is the second-largest producing station for public media in the united states. Weta and its subsidiary, news hour productions, llc, are the leading providers of public affairs programming to the pbs system. Productions include "pbs news hour," "pbs news weekend, "washington week with the atlantic." weta productions, co-productions, and presentations include series and specials from ken burns, dr. Henry louis gates, jr, and dozens of established and emerging filmmakers, as well as performance specials from major performance venues and the west lawn of the u.s. Capitol. Weta created "well beings," a multiplatform, multi-year campaign addressing the critical health needs in america.
$64,223,241 spentof which $1,093,092 as grants$4,442,324 earned by the program69% of program spendingLocal broadcasting - television & radio - weta is the flagship public media station in the greater washington area, distributing educational content accessible and free to all. Weta offers quality television programming on five digital channels 24 hours a day - weta pbs, weta uk, weta metro, weta world, and weta pbs kids - and streams content on a variety of platforms, including the weta+ streaming app. Weta creates five local series on the people, places, and culture of the region. Weta offers a children's educational television service that builds reading, literacy, and stem skills. Weta offers history, science, and nature programs; news and public affairs analysis; performance programming; dramas; documentaries; and independent documentary films. Weta classical is the washington area's only full-service classical music station, broadcasting on weta 90.9 fm, hd channel weta 90.9-1, and wgms 89.1 fm, and available via translator w205bl. Weta classical also operates an all-vocal digital channel, vivalavoce; provides an important connection with performing arts organizations; and offers online educational resources for music lovers of all ages.
$18,848,274 spent20% of program spendingOnline and community resources - weta builds extensive educational resources in conjunction with the national television content weta produces to support teachers and lifelong learners. For lifelong learners, weta creates over 50 events a year to engage the public with screenings, panel discussions, and interactive virtual events to further civic dialogue and engagement, explore the many stories of the history, people and places of our culture, and celebrate the arts. Pbs news student reporting labs engages students from across the country in learning about journalism and news production. Weta is the broadcast home of "it's academic," showcasing talented quiz teams from high schools across the region. Weta also creates literacy resources, including readingrockets.org for struggling young readers; colorincolorado.org, bilingual resources for parents and teachers of english-language learners; ldonline.org, the leading website on learning disabilities and adhd for parents, teachers, and students; adlit.org, supporting literacy of adolescent readers; and reading universe, reading instruction tools for grade-school teachers. Weta also offers brainline.org, the comprehensive source for…
$9,371,862 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $92,443,377.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $167M to $208M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 4% · 2019 4% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 2% · 2023 2% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Sharon P Rockefeller
President & CEO
Board chair
Timothy C Coughlin
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 100 funders to 184 funders, grant income rose $29M → $48M.
33 of 456 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from 30 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 456 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 43% · 2019 37% · 2020 37% · 2021 24% · 2022 36% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.9M on record.
- National Science Foundation$9.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.8M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$1.6M
- National Endowment for the Arts$145k
- Department of Justice$137k
- Smithsonian Institution$10k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 51 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Newshour Productions LLC · disregarded
- Wetacom Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC (Virginia) receives grants from 456 organizations whose IRS filings report $366,626,612 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($134,335,256). 283 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 456 organizations giving $366,626,612 in grants to GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC, 283 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $134,335,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 456 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing